I want to believe!

What if all demons and spooks were just stoopid-looking, when viewed full on in good light?

Please give this dog his own show stat! Ooh! He can replace John Barnaby on Midsomer Murders.

If you have read or even heard about the classic text "On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder, you should read this piece he just published *today* about what is likely to happen THIS WEEK in Ohio. An American Nazi ethnic cleanse. We cannot let this happen.

I want to believe that Democrats have a red line, and that it has been crossed, and that they will use the only weapon at their disposal right now. Break the glass, Dems. This is a do or die moment.

I am not sure this archive link will work. Please let me know if you can read the article from M. Gessen, a wise voice who has been here before, about State Terror. The sooner we sweep away our illusions about where we really are, the better. archive.ph/azgrq

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Another verified murder by ICE this morning. Straight up murder. Gov Walz posted this on X, so I consider this confirmation, although news is not yet reporting this. Massive Trigger Warning for this video. If you cannot watch (I could not) you can read the comments of all who did.

Get a whistle, people! It doesn't need to be a special anti-Ice whistle. We're carrying our herding whistles. They are LOUD and designed to pierce the elements over hill and dale and weather. Many backpacks have a built in plastic whistle on the front chest strap. Check yours. Whistles matter!

This gave me a big pop of delight today, such fine gallows humor.

Friends, there have been many calls for a General Strike this year, but none have really taken off. Now seems like the time. There is a Labor Union-endorsed strike called for January 23. This should be enacted nationwide! popularresistance.org/minnesota-ca...

The Companies Behind Ice: Mapped readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

It is like he is yelling at a pack of curs, the way they snarl and retreat.

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

It is a good message. We've made it this far, do you really want to get swept away now after all you have survived? We need you!

This, among other horrors, is why we vaccinate!

I plan to knit so hard to this next week, whilst 5 inches of rain falls.

Nobody from my medieval medicine world is on here, but my gods this is an exciting development. I have never played such a game, but just watching this trailer lights me up like the Ark of the Covenant.

It is just that simple. Behavior that is rewarded gets repeated. So don't reward it!

This combines so much of what I love: Wool, Queer Joy, Defiance, Animal Welfare, Textile Process Nerding, Human Rights, Animal Rights, Puns! www.grindr.com/blog/grindr-...

Somehow this is more unsettling than the old familiar black hearse. My brain is firing. Hmmmm....

This This THIS

You must choose

I bet it was a Spotted Towhee!

I've been taking ghost story writing classes, and now I know ghost story writers and ghost story readers and this is the kind of humor we like.

This is America right now, but this is not America at all. What is happening is surreal, but very real. I am ok right now, but I am not at all ok. These statement dyads are all true.

Feels right, though I prefer "Fuck Off".

Nice news to wake up to!

This is interesting! venturebeat.com/ai/nightshad...

Now this is someone worth a seance!

This choked me up a little.

This extraordinary piece is entitled "Allegory of the Transience of Life," c.1480. It’s an engraving printed on vellum, with hand-colouring, by Master I. A. M. of Zwolle - an Dutch goldsmith and engraver. It’s currently housed at the British Museum.

Your quarterly reminder to read this essay from 1941, called "Who Goes Nazi?" You might recognize some people from your life within the piece. harpers.org/archive/1941...

I was next to Morrissey at airport security at SFO in 2015 when he got yanked out of line by TSA and hassled. I took a bunch of pictures of his humiliation. Later when the event made the news because he was calling it groping by TSA, I thought "I should sell those pics"... but I was too lazy.